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(Inside Cheyenne Mountain, America's Fortress)

(Inside Cheyenne Mountain, America's Fortress)Cheyanne MountainI too, worked in a similar complex while I worked as a civilian for DISA which was/is responsible for highly classified message traffic. These photos brought back memories of our secure location with its own power plant. Our installation was heavily guarded,...

Tags: Cheyenne Mountain, Fortress

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Ideal languages

Sun's Fortress programming language is intended for general purpose but high performance computing. It's a re-invention and integration from scratch of some interesting ideas including automatic parallelisation and the use of mathematical notation in programming.Here's the summary from the language home site:Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Guy Steele's new programming language

Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Guy Steele's new programming language

How would you like to program like this?You can with Fortress, a new general-purpose statically typed language being developed by Guy Steeles Programming Language Research Group at Sun. Fortress allows the use of Unicode characters in program identifiers, as well as subscripts and superscripts ASCII equivalents are available. This and...

Tags: Fortress

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Views from the smartest people in Sun's orbit

A JavaOne panel with some of the smartest people orbiting Sun provided some insight into where Java, porgramming models, Google and man-machine relationships are heading. Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow and a key participant in Java's creation, talked about his latest language project, Fortress, which he described as "doing for...

Tags: Fortress, Sun Microsystems Inc., Danny Hillis, Guy Steele

Blog posts 2005-06-30

AirFortress Secure Driver 5.0.2085.1 (Windows)

AirFortress Secure Driver

Tags: Driver, Fortress, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2000-08-24

Additional Resources

The 'social enterprise' comes of age

Enterprise 2.0 blog....Have you ever read the blog "Original Thinking" by Dennis Stevenson over on ITToolbox.com? It has some interesting ideas about Enterprise 2.0 that may make for a good article or two.My view on the SAP approachI may be wrong, but I don't see any room for for...

Tags: Groupware, social enterprise, collaboration, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, enterprise social computing, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Guess who else is married to paper?

Another paper perilThankfully, knock on wood, I don't get sick very often.Since I hadn't been there for years, my Clinic threw away my entire medical history.Paper is a fact of life.You have to a have a paper trail, the entire concept of goingpaperless is just silliness.I am sure with the...

Tags: patient, doctors office

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Magic Academy II 1.0 (Windows)

Once again, trouble is brewing in the world of magic! A priceless and ancient treatise, with the power to summon a dangerous and exiled demon, has gone missing! Irene must track the magical book down to clear her sister`s name and become the savior of Tirisfal Fortress. Meet a curious...

Tags: Magic, SpinTop Games, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-09

The Linux botweb story that wasn't ...

Late last Friday a story appeared on my radar that seemed interesting - it was about a botweb a botnet made up of web servers utilizing Linux web servers. Was Linux cracked? Would Linux fans have to wind in all their security bragging? Was the Linux fortress wall breached? Was...

Tags: Linux, Web Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Works of Martin Luther. FREE Author's biography & hymns in the trial 10.3 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-07

Pragma Fortress SSH ClientSuite 5.0 (Windows)

Commercial grade full-featured SSH/SFTP/SCP/TelnetSSL/Telnet clients for Windows. Both Graphical and command line versions are in it. One Package will give you all--emulation and file transfer clients. Latest encryptions like FIPS certified AES. Connect to Windows/Linux/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX SSH/Telnet Servers. Latest Generation 2 code base of Pragma using fast C++ compiled with Visual...

Tags: Pragma Systems, Microsoft Windows, Kerberos, Telnet, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Software, Security, Networking

Software downloads 2009-08-13

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 coming 12 August

T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 coming 12 AugustMy kingdom for 3G!I love my T-Mobile plan and service, only one pitfall. There is no 3G in my area, AT&T just rolled it out a couple months ago but so far T-Mobile has no answer to my pleas. This is the phone I...

Tags: Engineering, battery, T-Mobile, T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2, 3G, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

What will that green project cost you? GlassHouse service calculates the environmental tab.

Most IT services companies have figured out how to tell you how much money a given infrastructure project will cost and then, hopefully, save over time. GlassHouse Technologies hopes to differentiate its message by calculating what it calls the Energy Proficiency Impact Analysis for major projects that it undertakes. ...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Data Center, GlassHouse Service, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

News to know: Windows 7; Dell; IT salaries; Enterprise 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different? Microsoft: Windows 7 Upgrade deal maxes out at 25...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Photograph, Salary, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Inside Cheyenne Mountain, America's Fortress

On Road Trip 2009, CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman visited Cheyenne Mountain, in Colorado Springs. Known as "America's Fortress," the extremely-secure facility is home to elements of, among others, NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Space Command, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency...

Tags: Facility, America, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-06-27

Microsoft SideWinder X8 Mouse

Despite their cord-free convenience, wireless mice have a poor adoption rate among serious PC gamers due to lag and signal hiccups. Microsoft's feature-heavy SideWinder X8 solves that problem with a hybrid design that lets you swap almost seamlessly between wired and wireless connection. Throw in Microsoft's souped-up BlueTrack sensor technology,...

Tags: Mice, Microsoft Corp., SideWinder X8, mouse, BlueTrack

Product reviews 2009-06-04

FEncryptor 1.0 (Windows)

FEncryptor is a Fortress NetGuard product that performs encryption and decryption processes. You can encrypt/decrypt both files and folders. Browse your file system using the explorer. When you select a folder, all its contents will be listed. Non-encrypted files will be listed in the upper-right list, while encrypted files will...

Tags: Folder, File, Fortress NetGuard, FEncryptor, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-05-04